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January 13, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Readers of Euripides might suspect that he disliked gods and heroes. For example, The Bacchae makes Dionysus appear like a megalomaniac. Hippolytus presents Aphrodite as a ruthless gamer. And in Heracles, the great hero returns from war only to brutally murder his family. …
June 2, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Reading through the list of punishments in Dante’s Inferno had a very visceral effect on me. I was thinking about the type of lifestyle that would lead one to create such insane punishments. After putting a little bit of thought into systems of …
